This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic" : Phthisis / by Johns, Edward W. ; Dysentery / by Miller, James W. ; History of Five Cases / by Grafton, William H. ; Typhoid Fever / by Jones, Reuben E. ; Acute Laryngitis / by Gough, Richard T. ; Differential Diagnosis of Cardiac Disease / by Lake, R. Pinkney ; Report of Cases / by Du Hamel, William J.C. ; Sundry Medical Cases / by Peach, William E. ; Inflammation / by Hurst, G. N. ; Iritis / by Brown, Septimus ; Pneumonia / by Johnson, Richard P. ; Epidemic Cholera / by Emory, D. C. H. ; Report of Five Cases / by McCarthy, B. Melvin ; Typhoid Fever / by Johnson, William H. ; The Influence of Nature Upon Man / by Smith, Berwick B. ; Apoplexy / by Harrell, William B.